228 Setting text at an angle

- It's easy to rotate a text frame in InDesign,…like this frame over here on the left,…but it's not at all obvious how to set the text…on an angle, like this text on the right.…I'm not even sure how to describe that text.…I like to call it Tower of Pisa text,…where all the text is tilted over to the right.…There are several ways you could achieve this in InDesign.…One method is to use anchored text frames,…but that's kind of a hassle,…so here's another, relatively straight forward technique…that lets you pull off this effect quickly.…

I'm going to apply it to this text frame down here.…I have several paragraphs inside this text frame,…and I've used rule below to separate them…with that dotted line.…Once I have the text more or less the way I want it,…I'm going to select that frame with the selection tool.…That's the black arrow tool at the top of the tools panel,…but then, I'm going to change to the…direct selection tool by pressing…the "a" key on my keyboard,…or you could just select the white arrow tool,…the second tool in the tools panel.…

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3/15/2018

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8/25/2011

In this series, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción, co-hosts of the web's top resource for InDesign tips and tricks, InDesignSecrets.com, share some hidden and sometimes surprising workflow tips that will make working in InDesign more efficient and more fun. The course covers built-in timesaving features such as Quick Apply and auto-expanding text, but also little-known tricks, such as using the eyedropper to copy and paste character and paragraph text attributes and making accurate selections by selecting through or even into objects.

New techniques will be added to the collection every other week, so check back early and often. Find more tips and tricks at indesignsecrets.com.

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